Sunday 15 December 2019

Too hot to sleep

Jan told the heat prevented her from getting much sleep last night.  She was definitely not in bed when I started to consciously examine the inside of my eyelids around 7.20am.  Whilst checking our solar array production I noticed the spike in the consumer line at 5.04am. 

kettle

The 2000 Watt kettle must have been used for the first morning cup of tea.  The next spike is 8.10am when she made more tea for both of us.

You can see the standard solar array ‘bell curve’ from the previous days production.

bell curve  

Jan’s first cuppa must have been at 5.44am yesterday!  A few peaks around 5-6pm when Jan was making toastie sandwiches for dinner.  The later spike is me made the evening cuppa at 9pm.  The 2kW power consumption line from 9am to 10pm is predominantly the air conditioning units.

The large bushfire to the north of us continues to burn.  We are fortunately the wind is driving it further north.  Not so good for those on the other side of the fire front.  Overnight the Boeing 737 water bomber has been relocated to Perth from the other side of the continent.  Hopefully that will assist the fire fighters in containing the blaze.  It’s only the second week of the official fire season and we have another 10 weeks to go.  moreover the fires actually started in September well before the official season.  If this keeps up there are going to be a large number of exhausted fire fighters.

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